Improvement in fly-traps



UNITED STATES i PATENT -QEEICE DIXVVELL LATHROP, OF LA SALLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLY-TRAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,372, dated March 1:0, 1874; application filed February 7, 1874.

tion and arrangement of parts hereinafter described.

In the drawing, Figure lis a vertical section of the ily-trap, taken on the line .r w of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line y y of Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This ily-trap consists of four separate parts, placed one upon the other, and not necessarily fastened together.

A is the lower casing, made, preferably, of wood, which rests upon table or bench. This casing has an interior compartment, B, which has" shelves C around its sides. edges of the sides of the easing are cut away, except at the corners, leaving spaces D, of about oneffourth of an inch in width, to admit the flies, as seen in Fig. I. E is the bait-box, which rests upon the table or bench, over which the case A is placed, so that it forms a bottom for the compartment B, with an open space, F, around its sides, as seen in Fig. 2. G is the top of the casing. His a cup made The bottom Sweetened water, sirup, or any suitable baitY is placed in the bait-box, to which the flies and insects readily find access. The compartment or chamber B is lighted by the wire gauze or glass windows L in lits sides, and the flies, instead of returning the way they entered, iiy

upward, and, finding their escape cut ofi, and,

seeing the full light of day above them, readily pass, through the opening J and tube I, into the cup H against the glass cover, from which they drop into the liquid on, in the cup, which kills them.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire vto secure by Letters Patent- A fly-trap consisting of the bait-box E, bottom case A, having compartment or chamber B, with windows L L, opening J, cup H, with tube I, and transparent cover K, arranged substantially as shown and described.

DIXWELL LATHROP.

Witnesses R. D. McDoNALr, O. T. GiLLETT. 

